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  • WATCH: Rethinking How Universities Study Terrorism

    WATCH: Rethinking How Universities Study Terrorism

    Anne Bradley makes the case for bringing economics into the academic study of political violence.

    In an upcoming episode of Café Berlin, Lilla Nora Kiss and I are joined by Anne Bradley, the George and Sally Mayer Fellow for Economic Education and Academic Director at…

  • WATCH: Are Screens Helping Students Learn?

    WATCH: Are Screens Helping Students Learn?

    Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath joins Brains & Bots to discuss classroom technology, effortful learning, and why access to information is not the same as knowledge.

    In this episode of Brains & Bots, I am joined by Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, a neuroscientist, educator, and author of The Digital Delusion: What Classroom Technology Does to Learning.…

  • Trump Narrows Foreign Students’ Access to U.S. Internships

    Trump Narrows Foreign Students’ Access to U.S. Internships

    Limits on curricular practical training may curb visa abuse and reduce competition for American work opportunities.

    Foreign students will have a tougher time displacing American students from work opportunities following a new Trump administration policy.

  • What Should Universities Teach?

    What Should Universities Teach?

    Students need the knowledge to grasp what they study and the perspective to judge its place and importance.

    Shai Goldman’s “Ignorance and Conviction at Columbia” rightly dings the modern educational obsession with “critical thinking,” which in practice is “analytical thinking” with a bolshie chip on the shoulder. I…

  • Dispatches from the American Revolution 

    Dispatches from the American Revolution 

    Our coverage of the American Revolution will continue under a new name.

    In December 2024, I began editing a series for the National Association of Scholars that we eventually came to call The Road to the American Revolution. The aim was to…

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    The White House report advances many reforms the National Association of Scholars has long advocated.

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